Blog Day 360 - Tuesday 23 March 2021'

Would you believe that today is the 12 month anniversary of the premier's famous "you can't get on the beers speech", which heralded the start of the corona virus restrictions and lockdowns.

Who would have thought that 12 months after that declaration that we would still be worried about daily corona virus infection figures, still be living under restrictions of numbers in public and private gatherings, would still be wearing masks, still be living with border closures and restrictions, still have no overseas travel, still have Daniel Andrews as premier with him and his merry bunch of incompetents responsible for over 800 deaths in this state and a second and more stringent lockdown.

Meanwhile worldwide in the last 12 months there has been 124,000,000 million corona virus infections and 2,734,000 deaths.  If you had been living in an igloo at the north pole for the last year or so with no communication if somebody told you these figures you wouldn't believe them.

When you look at the worldwide figures Victoria and Australia have done remarkably well.  For comparison purposes Chile has a population of 19 million and 22,000 virus related deaths; Romania also has a population of 19 million and 22,000 deaths compared to Australia with a population of 26 million and 909 deaths.  Although then you have countries like Taiwan with a population of 24 million with 10 deaths.

There appears to be little rhyme or reason with the casualty rate of the virus, countries with similar populations, standards of living and standards of health services reported widely different infection and death rates.  While some countries appear to have the virus under control, particularly the US and UK other countries are experiencing either continuations of their 2nd wave or a new 3rd wave of the virus, particularly Brazil, France, Italy, Spain and the Balkan countries.

Whoever is pretending to be premier of this state this week has announced that from 26 March  there will be a further relaxation of the virus rules.  Masks will only need to be worn in limited circumstances such as on public transport, in Ubers/taxis and in nursing homes etc, limits on groups in private homes will be lifted from 30 to 100 and in public spaces from 100 to 200.

Anyway, enough of the reminiscing about the good old days of lockdown and quarantine and lets have a look at the current situation.

Victoria has today reported "all the zeros", no new infections, zero active cases etc.  We have been 25 days without a local infection and it is the first time since 10/12/20 that we haven't had any active cases in the state.

Australia wide there were 7 new infections recorded, 4 in NSW and 3 in Qld, all ROTs.

The only figures available for test results are from Victoria with 13,500 results received in the last 24 hours.

Currently there are 145 active virus cases nationally and 142 of those are ROTs.  There are 57 cases in NSW, 55 of them ROTs and 58 in Qld of which 57 are ROTs.

Australia wide we have vaccinated 287,000 people which accounts for 1.1% of the population.

Worldwide there were 422,860 new infections and 7,418 deaths.  Although hard to tell I would say that the worldwide figures are declining slightly although given the variation in both the new infection and death figures it is hard to say.

The US reported 33,000 new infections for the 24 hours 22/03 and 429 deaths for the same period.  The UK reported 5,400 new infections and 34 deaths for the same 24 hour period.  The US and UK are both continuing to record significant reductions in both daily infections and deaths.

Just for comparison Brazil reported 48,000 new infections in the last 24 hours and India 47,000.  

Brazil has a population of approximately 213 million and to date has reported 12 million infections for the pandemic and 296,000 deaths.  India has a population of 1.4 billion folk and has also reported 12 million infections, but India with similar number of infections has reported 160,000 deaths or 46% less than Brazil's.  Go figure

Corona Virus Daily Stats – March 2021 – Covid Normal (for the time being)

Date	Aus Infected	Aus Increase	Aus ROTs Increase	Vic Infected	Vic Increase	Vic ROTS Increase	*Aus Active Infection	*Aus ROTs	Vic Active Infection	Vic ROTs
01/03	28,978	8	8	20,481	0	0	71	61	11	1
02/03	28,986	9	9	20,481	0	0	72	63	10	1
03/03	28,992	6	6	20,481	0	0	72	64	8	0
04/03	29,007	14	14	20,481	0	0	83	78	5	0
05/03	29,021	13	13	20,481	0	0	83	78	5	0
06/03	29,027	7	7	20,482	1	1	95	89	6	1
07/03	29,037	7	7	20,481	0	0	98	92	5	0
08/03	29,046	9	7	20,482	1	1	105	98	5	1
09/03	29,061	15	15	20,483	1	1	106	102	6	2
10/03	29,074	13	13	20,483	0	0	119	115	6	2
11/03	29,090	15	15	20,483	0	0	118	117	3	2
12/03	29,102	12	12	20,483	0	0	116		3	3
13/03	29,112	11	10	20,483	0	0	117		3	3
14/03	29,117	5	5	20,483	0	0	111		3	2
15/03	29,130	14	13	20,483	0	0	114	113	2	2
16/03
17/03
18/03
19/03
20/03
21/03
22/03	29,206	4	4	20,483	0	0	147	144	1	1
23/03	29,211	7	7	20,483	0	0	145	142	0	0

Date	World Infection	Daily Increase	World Deaths	Daily Increase
01/03/21	114,686,978	321,386	2,543,285	6,582
02/03/21	114,993,503	306,525	2,550,245	6,960
03/03/21	115,281,061	287,558	2,559,210	8,965
04/03/21	115,760,899	479,838	2,570,837	11,627
05/03/21	116,206,172	445,273	2,580,784	9,947
06/03/21	116,647,742	441,570	2,590,967	10,183
07/03/21	117,068,795	421,053	2,599,264	8,297
08/03/21	117,432,452	363,657	2,604,791	5,527
09/03/21	117,723,538	291,116	2,611,130	6,339
10/03/21	118,144,752	421,214	2,621,035	9,905
11/03/21	118,595,502	450,750	2,630,467	9,432
12/03/21
13/03/21
14/03/21
15/03/21	120,401,626	451,531	2,664,662	8,548
16/03/21
17/03/21
18/03/21
19/03/21
20/03/21	122,921,855		2,713,292
21/03/21	123,429,739	507,884	2,721,501	8,209
22/03/21	123,844,154	414,415	2,727,286	5,785
23/03/21	124,267,014	422,860	2,734,704	7,418

	US & UK Daily New Infections & Death Numbers
Date	US New Infections	US Daily Deaths	UK New Infections	UK Daily Deaths
01/03/21	51,204	1,097	6,055	144
02/03/21	57,439	1,431	5,462	104
03/03/21	56,758	1,924	6,411	343
04/03/21	65,909	2,360	6,420	487
05/03/21	65,447	1,775	6,644	242
06/03/21	66,786	1,758	6,024	236
07/03/21	57,596	1,485	6,118	159
08/03/21	40,903	669	5,260	82
09/03/21	50,237	719	4,823	65
10/03/21	55,909	1,891	5,869	231
11/03/21	57,939	1,554	6,021	190
12/03/21	62,404	1,557	6,835	181
13/03/21	61,204	1,769	6,684	176
14/03/21	52,642	1,701	5,617	122
15/03/21
16/03/21
17/03/21
18/03/21
19/03/21	60,381	1,611	6,332	95
20/03/21	61,413	1,445	4,872	100
21/03/21	52,753	771	5,639	96
22/03/21	33,243	429	5,356	34
23/03/21

Covid Normal Reminders;

Remember: not to look for naked ladies in every ink blot; to collect your Frequent Flyer points, you might be able to use them one day; don't burn your leaves in the gutter; don't air the family's dirty laundry in public; to be careful on wet & slippery staircases; cancel your holiday to Brazil; you can "get on the beers".